No government of the left has done as much for the poor as capitalism has. Even when it comes to the redistribution of income, the left talks the talk but the free market walks the walk.
THOMAS SOWELL
I am so old that I can remember when other people’s achievements were considered to be an inspiration, rather than a grievance.
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No government of the left has done as much for the poor as capitalism has. Even when it comes to the redistribution of income, the left talks the talk but the free market walks the walk.
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What then is the intellectual advantage of civilization over primitive savagery? It is not necessarily that each civilized man has more knowledge but that he requires far less.
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The welfare state is not really about the welfare of the masses. It is about the egos of the elites.
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The question is not what anybody deserves. The question is who is to take on the God-like role of deciding what everybody else deserves.
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The fact that the market is not doing what we wish it would do is no reason to automatically assume that the government would do better.
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Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric.
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The most basic question is not what is best, but who shall decide what is best.
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For the anointed, traditions are likely to be seen as the dead hand of the past, relics of a less enlightened age, and not as the distilled experience of millions who faced similar human vicissitudes before.
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What is called an educated person is often someone who has had a dangerously superficial exposure to a wide spectrum of subjects.
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The purpose of education is to give the student the intellectual tools to analyze, whether verbally or numerically, and to reach conclusions based on logic and evidence.
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The first lesson of economics is scarcity: There is never enough of anything to satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics.
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The next time some academics tell you how important diversity is, ask how many Republicans there are in their sociology department.
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The only people I truly envy are those who can play a musical instrument and those who can eat anything they want without gaining weight.
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It is amazing that people who think we cannot afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, and medication somehow think that we can afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, medication and a government bureaucracy to administer it.
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What all these lofty and vague phrases boil down to is that the court can impose things that the voters don’t want and the Constitution does not require, but which are in vogue in circles to which the court responds.
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It is usually futile to try to talk facts and analysis to people who are enjoying a sense of moral superiority in their ignorance.
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